BREAKING: Senate immigration reform deal is reached

Senate immigration reform deal is reached
Los Angeles Times | January 27, 2013 | 9:02 PM
Republican and Democratic senators reach agreement on a plan to give legal status to most of the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in the U.S., a proposal likely to form the basis for a far-reaching overhaul of the nation's immigration laws.

Now they're eligible for programs, so how do we pay for that?
I guess on the flip side, if they actually become legally employed, they'll also have to pay taxes.
Will this really change anything?

[quote]Now they're eligible for programs
Legal status does not necessitate citizenship. The article mentions probationary legal status, applying for legal residency (green card) and a "long path" to citizenship. Citizenship would involve paying back taxes, among other things.

Is this really what Obama is wasting his "mandate" on? He better help push through some real reform that effects the other 99% of the country for the better really soon. I want some fucking FDR level programs, not this dinky crap that doesn't even help anyone who voted for him.

This is not going to go over well? Both sides need Latinos to win elections.

What is this irrational fear?

[quote]This is not going to go over well? Both sides need Latinos to win elections.
Latinos who have been Americans for more than a few generations and without Amnesty are not concerned about the status of illegals outside of how it threatens their jobs and pay scales.

Whoa.
We knew they were going to do something but I don't think anyone expected it this fast.
Good. It must mean that at least *some* of what happened in the last election got through to Republican baggers.
Really, it won't help the baggers the way they think/hope. Latinos know that Republicans see them as second-class human beings. Their crackpot anti-immigrant stance has done a lot of damage and quite a few of them will go right on doing damage.

[quote]I want some fucking FDR level programs
Not going to happen.
Obama is no FDR.

[quote]Obama is no FDR.
Obama can walk.

Idiotic comment, R12

Not at all true, R9. We all know why they hate Mexican immigrants - their skin color and language - and so this is a *very* big deal to those of us who have been in the U.S. for decades and even centuries. We see attacks on immigrants as racist - even the few Hispanic Republicans take umbrage to anti-immigrant rhetoric.

Fifth-Generation%20Mexican-American

White house is starting to believe that immigration reform will not be passed this yr.

R14, Have you been following how NV Gov Sandoval has been handling this issue? Some see him as a Moderate; is that true?

John Boehner will make sure there's no immigration reform.

FDR brought in FDR programs because there were strong left, labor, progressive movements in the US at that time. Communists, too! Politicians act when they are pushed, and when people are protesting in the streets. They don't give out progressive legislation like they are a shopping mall Santa giving out cheap candy.
No strong left now. It is weak, so marginalized as to be almost non-existent. People are working longer hours for less pay. People are hooked on video games, porn, Kardashians, and meth. That is why there is no FDR or FDR programs now.